WAIROA.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3505, 30 September 1882, Page 2

WAIROA.

(fKOM OUK OWN CORRESPONDENT.) September 28th, 1882. Mr J. W. Sargisson (late of your town) of the local firm of Sargisson and Co., officiated at the organ in St. Paul's Church on Sunday night last. His playing, especially in the softer passages, is very much admired. If the Vestry could secure him as an orgrnist he would indeed be an acquisition to our church.

The Frasertown people are progressing fairly with tbe library movement. A total of £30 15s baa already been collected, and at the last meeting of the committee it was decided to apply to the chief booksellers for catalogues. Advance Frasertown !

On Thursday the Clyde Total Abstinence Society met, the President, Rev. P. Riddle, in the chair. There were twesty-three members present. Aiiong the other business a letter was read from Mr R. O. Harding, in which he stated his willingness to act as corresponding member to the society. Mr Harding is so thoroughly identified with the temperance cause that his help will be valuable, and was gladly accepted.

For the first time these many years the Wairoa County Council has been compelled to call upou the sureties for the lessee of the Wairoa ferry to take over the service. Russell has failed to carry out the contract, and has lost the terry. The rent is £7 a month, I think, and I am credibly informed that the receipts average £1 a day.

Salmon have commenced to regard our splendid river (must blow our trumpet about something, you know) with favorable eyes, a young specimen of the fish being caught near the ferry last week. This probably came from the Mohaka side, for, as far as I can Temember, the Acclimatisation Society have not put any fish in the Wairoa river. They have given us a pest of small birds though, but the salmon and trout that might not prove hurtful have gone some other way. There is an old story about some ova that were being sent here, only some magnate asked for them, and we had to go without; but 'lis a fishy story, and I won't tell it.

The Wairoa Post and Telegraph Office shows a surplus of receipts over expenditure for last year of over £230. It stands forty-sixth in respect of receipts out a total of 230 offices in New Zealand. Yet the Government cannot see that we deserve a little better accommodation. I venture to think there ia not a more illlooking, uncomfortable, unbusinesslike post office in the colony—in fact, if it wasn't for the solitary wire that leads in to the building you would not know it was the post office. We used to give the palm for shabbiness to the old Bank of New Zealand (now Mr T. Powdrell's renovated residence), but I think it must now be awarded to the Wairoa Post and Telegraph Office.